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The Benefits of Vibrations

20.03.2017

Scientists from Augusta University, USA conducted an analysis of the results of using a less common type of body exercise - "vibration of the whole body" (BVT). It turned out that in mice, bones and muscles react in much the same way as regular exercise. This observation can be useful to quite a few who cannot go to the gym.

Such vibration looks like this: a person sits, stands or lies on a machine with a vibrating platform, and when it vibrates, it transfers energy to the body, so that the muscles contract and relax several times per second.

The researchers took two groups of male mice, five weeks old. They put normal mice in one group, and genetically modified mice in the other so as not to respond to the hormone leptin (which contributes to the feeling of fullness after eating). Mice from both groups were subjected to different exercises.

After a week had passed, as the mice became accustomed to the equipment, both groups began a 12-week exercise program. Mice in the IWT group "worked out" for 20 minutes a day, vibrating at a frequency of 32 Hz, with an acceleration of 0.5g. In another group, the mice walked on a slightly incline treadmill for 45 minutes a day. Finally, mice in the control group were not exercised at all. all mice were weighed monthly.

Mice genetically destined to be obese received similar metabolic benefits from the treadmill and IWT, and gained less weight than mice not exercising at all, although they remained heavier than normal and exercised mice. In addition, both types of exercise increased muscle mass and insulin sensitivity in genetically engineered mice.

All this together leads to the conclusion that therapy with IWT can be very useful for people with morbid obesity. And in general, many find it difficult, for various reasons, to exercise regularly, which only contributes to the spread of obesity and diabetes, which, in turn, weaken the bones.

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